Whitehorse Daily Star

May 13, 2014

• Delegates here for caribou workshop The biennial North American Caribou Workshop,
• Yukoners' innovations impressed astronaut David Saint-Jacques, an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency,
• Mixing Mining With Fun And Learning The exploration Discovery Camp set up last Friday and Saturday in Shipyards Park
• Clara's Big Ride counters the stigma of mental illness Clara's Big Ride arrived in Dawson on Sunday a bit later than Clara Hughes had intended.
• Energy experts begin meeting The Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) is hosting a workshop entitled Electric Thermal Storage: Space Heating With Renewable Energy, today and Wednesday.
• Acting top city official lauded for his work It's back to "business as usual” for Brian Crist, but not before being honoured for his work over the past year in the city manager's chair.
• Legal arguments filed in Peel watershed lawsuit Legal arguments were filed last Friday in the lawsuit against the Yukon government and its land use plan for the Peel River watershed.
• More people, economic activity cited in GHG rise More people, economic activity cited in GHG rise

May 12, 2014

• Potoroka to lead AYC for the coming year It wasn't a hard fought election, but Dawson Mayor Wayne Potoroka beat Whitehorse city councillor John Streicker on Sunday for the presidency of the Association of Yukon Communities.
• Young Rider Honoured Dale Panchyshyn rides Saturday in memory of Eric Bonneteau,
• White River First Nation chief quits Chief Charlie Eikland Jr. has resigned as chief of the White River First Nation (WRFN) in the Beaver Creek area.
• Standing Up For The Climate About 25 people attended Saturdayʼs National Day of Action to Defend Our Climate along with people in 60 other Canadian cities.
• Day of Honour ceremony held at cenotaph site The city's cenotaph will soon be engraved to mark Canada's mission in Afghanistan.
• AYC urges action on a number of territorial issues Issues discussed and voted on at the Sunday morning AGM of the Association of Yukon Communities (AYC) ran the gamut from highway brushing to government decentralization and banking. Delegates also discussed the provision of 911 service outside Whitehorse.
• Public lauded for helping douse fire Those out enjoying the tranquility of the Hidden Lakes area of Riverdale on Sunday afternoon are being praised for their efforts which kept the season's first Whitehorse district wildfire from spreading.
• Sentencing pronouncement unleashes profanity A Whitehorse man sentenced for robbery and assault Friday stood, shackled, in stark contrast to his sister, a thoughtful young woman present in the courtroom gallery.

May 9, 2014

• Education ministers meet in Yellowknife Education Minister Elaine Taylor met with her territorial counterparts Tuesday in Yellowknife to compare notes on each jurisdiction's approach to northern education challenges.
• Mobile home owners have a date with the legislature Next week, the new Mobile Home Owners Association is planning to show the Yukon government just how much support it has.
• Work plan out for new new hydroelectric facilities The Yukon government on Thursday released its work plan to investigate options for new hydroelectric generating facilities to provide for future energy needs.
• Saturday Is Showtime The Big Band rehearses Thursday evening at Porter Creek Secondary School.
• Watson Lake agency's workers ink agreement The workers at Help and Hope for Families Society in Watson Lake voted May 1 to ratify their first ever collective agreement.
• Skagway ferry service will resume Sunday After a two-week interruption of ferry service due to a sunken dock, Skagway can expect to see the M/V LeConte pulling into its terminal on Sunday.
• Gardeners group plans no growth, council told The Downtown Urban Gardeners Association has no plans nor desire to expand its downtown site to make way for more gardens.
• Hailing Hair The 2014 graduating class at Porter Creek Secondary School presented their annual hair show,
• Vactor truck could cost the city more than $500,000 A new Vactor truck for the city could cost more than half a million dollars.
• The Younger Performers The Northern Lights School of Dance year-end production of The Firebird and the Return to the Forest is showing at 7:00 this evening and Saturday evening
• City may reduce its price on compost Anyone planning to buy bulk quantities of compost from the city may want to wait until June.
• Food For Thought Turns To Action Youth, including this trio, from a number of schools participated Thursday in the Whitehorse Food Bankʼs Hunger Awareness Week campaign on Main Street.
• Government cancels date with common school calendar plan The Yukon government has abandoned its plans to implement a common school calendar across the territory.
• Grace On Stage The Yukon Arts Centre is the place to be at 7:00 tonight and Saturday night for the Northern Lights School of Dance year-end production of The Firebird and the Return to the Forest.
• Coming out of the shadows and ending the stigma Mental illness isn't talked about much because of the stigmas associated with it.
• Range of spring recreation grants proposed From a rock band camp to the operations of ski facilities to the hiring of a heritage programmer for the MacBride Museum, the city could be doling out more than $170,000 in recreation grants for a variety of initiatives by local organizations.
• Late Author Remembered Canadian author Farley Mowatt (right) is seen on the set of Never Cry Wolf in the Caribou Hotel in Carcross,
• Average house sale price dropped: stats The average sale price of single detached houses in Whitehorse in the fourth quarter of 2013 was $394,800, reports the Yukon Bureau of Statistics.
• Commemorative ride to take place at track A commemorative dirt bike ride in honour of Eric Bonneteau, the 23-year-old who died last Sunday after an accident at the old motocross track on May 3, will take place at the site tomorrow.
• Showtime Is Tonight Sarah Ott is one of the Vanier Catholic Secondary School students in the spring musical Leader of the Pack,
• Management of health problems to improve Health and Social Services Minister Doug Graham announced recently that negotiations with British Columbia on a new electronic information system for public health have been successful.
• Plaintiff is in the game, precedents suggest A lawsuit by a Whitehorse man against two referees and a fellow player in the city's adult rec league may be unprecedented in the Yukon, but the case has legal parallels
• ‘This really is the worst tragedy you could imagine' ‘This really is the worst tragedy you could imagine'
• Divisive issue sees groups stage separate rallies Opinions on federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's move to force all new Liberal candidates in the next election to toe the party's pro-choice line varied by demonstration Thursday in Whitehorse.
• 'Round and 'round the world goes global cyclist His bike has taken him around the world six times over the course of more than two decades, and now Randolph Westphal is making the trip again.
• Berger shoots down Peel compensation concern Prohibiting road or rail access to mineral claims inside the Peel watershed would not require compensation paid to mining companies, says lawyer Thomas Berger.
• ‘A lot of people asked me, encouraged me to run again' The Yukon's former MP has officially entered the race for the Liberal Party of Canada's territorial nomination for the 2015 election.